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Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Acting Born Feb 8, 1928 Pavlovsky Posad, Soviet Union 24 credits

Biography

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He was born in Pavlovsky Posad near Moscow. His mother was a kindergarten teacher and his father an engineer in the local textile factory. Vyacheslav dreamed of acting but his parents envisioned a different career, and during the war he worked in a munitions factory. After employment as a metal worker, he began [training for an] acting career in 1945 by entering, not without difficulty, the Actors’ Faculty of VGIK. After graduating VGIK with honours in 1950, he began his acting career on stage of Theatre Studio of Film Actor, where he worked for six years. In 1948 he married Nonna Mordyukova, a popular actress at the time (the couple had one son, Vladimir, also an actor who died in 1990). The marriage was dissolved in 1963. Later Tikhonov married a second time to Tamara Ivanovna Tikhonova and had one child with her, Anna Tikhonova (also an actor) in 1969. He died on 4 December 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has expressed his condolences to Tikhonov's family.

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Known for

Seventeen Moments of Spring

as Max Otto von Stirlitz / Maksim Maksimovich Isaev
Film

War and Peace

as Andrei Bolkonsky

The Stand

as pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov

Full filmography

  • Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) as Max Otto von Stirlitz / Maksim Maksimovich Isaev
  • Legends of Cinema (2016) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Waiting Room (1998) as Zaitsev Mikhail Borisovich
  • War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1966) as Andrei Bolkonsky
  • War and Peace (1968) as Andrei Bolkonsky
  • War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova (1966) as Andrei Bolkonsky
  • War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (1967) as Andrei Bolkonsky
  • TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (1984) as Константин Иванович Константинов, генерал КГБ
  • War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (1967) as Andrei Bolkonsky
  • Burnt by the Sun (1994) as Vsevolod Konstantinovich
  • They Fought for Their Motherland (1975) as pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov
  • Midshipman Panin (1960) as Василий Панин
  • Taras Shevchenko (1951) as Cameo
  • Chest of Drawers Was Lead Through the Street... (1978) as пассажир с комодом (новелла «Комод»)
  • May Stars (1959) as Andrey Rukavichkin
  • White Bim Black Ear (1977) as Ivan Ivanovich
  • The Young Guard (1948) as Vladimir Osmukhin
  • Battle of Moscow (1985) as Narrator (voice)
  • Front Beyond the Front Line (1978)
  • To Kill a Dragon (1988) as архивариус Шарлемань
  • Front Without Flanks (1975) as Ivan Petrovich Mlynsky, Major
  • An Optimistic Tragedy (1963) as Aleksei
  • White Bim Black Ear (1977) as Ivan Ivanovich
  • Front in the Rear of the Enemy (1982)